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AN EPIC OF TODAY IN BRAZIL

CANAAN is an epic of now, of the titanic surging of the half-blind world toward a truer brotherhood of man. Its author, Joseph Graca Aranha of the Brazilian Academy, views humanity through the telescope of cosmic philosophy, as a baby taking its first uncertain steps toward Utopia.

April 11, 1920

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